Improvement in tobacco-cutters



3. LEE.

Tobacco, Cutter.

No; 37,294. Patented Jani 6,186 3.

N. PETERS, Phm-Limo n hw. Wuhinflon, nfc.

UNITED STATE PATENT OFFIcE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,29 1, dated January 6, 1863.

a machine or slicer as constructed either with cork-squeezing jaws or nut-cracking jaws, or both, arranged and combined with the levers and stand, applied in manner and so as to operate together substantially as hereinafter specified.

In the drawing, A denotes the stand of the machine, such stand having jointed to its two opposite'ends two levers, B 0, their fulcra being exhibited, respectively, at a and b.

The lowermost lever, O, is placed directly over the stand A, the uppermost lever, B, being disposed not only over thelever O,butpartly in ad Vance of its fore end. The twolevers co-operate or engage with one another by means of two cogged sectors, D E, one of which is affixed to each lever. Thc'lower lever carries a cutter or slicing-knife, F, which operatesin connection with a bed on the upper surface of the stand A, the said knife being arranged on one side of or with respect to the lever O, as represented in the drawing. Furthermore, each lever is constructed or provided with one or more concave jaws, c d 6, one series of them being arranged on the upper edge of the lower lever, while the other set is placed on the lower edge of the upper lever, and near to the toothed sectors, as shown in the drawing.

There are also one or more sets of jaws, ff

g applied to the lower lever and the stand ble form to enable nuts to be inserted between them and subsequently cracked by them during a descent of the lever G. The uppermost set of jaws are intended for the compression of corks for bottles or other vessels, and may be scored or creased transversely. While the upper lever may be in the act of being depressed, it will not only appoach the lower one, but depress it, and in so doing will force the upper jaws of each of the sets toward their fellow jaws. At the same time the slicing or cutting knife will be forced downward toward its bed. levers is such with respect to the cork-compressing jaws as not only to condense a cork while between them, but roll or turn it more or less in the meantime, the jaws being made with concavities suited to corks of various sizes.

SAMUEL LEE.

Witnesses:

B. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

The peculiar operation of the two i The machine so made is capable not only of 

